Re: New to the list

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:

>Dear list-members of Conlang,
>
>My name is Oskar Gudlaugsson and I'm 20 years old from Iceland. I'm a
>polyglott and linguistics-enthusiast who uses conlanging for personal
>expression. Sound familiar?
Oo! Islenskr madhr! (allowing for spelling errors) Welcome to the
list.

>Anyway, subscribers to AUXLANG would be familiar with me, as I've been on
>that list for a month or so. However, I just decided to leave it, as I'm
>sick of the pointless bickering there about personal matters or the utterly
>uninteresting history of the IAL-movement. Not enough useful discussion
>going on there.
>
>I'm well aware that discussions on auxlangs are not allowed on this list.
That is quite right! If convicted, your arms and legs will be cut off
(one at a time) and your tongue will will be pulled out from the root;
after which, you may then issue an apology and fly the country.

>However, I recently realized that my ideas should be posted on this list
>instead of the other, as I'm only really interested in the design of
>auxlangs per se; I don't care about the auxlang-movement or the teaching of
>those languages ("propagating" is what they call it). The last time I
>presented my ideas the only comments I got were "How will you propagate
>this language?".
Hm. Here we tell you how neat your language is, and ask what kind of
cultures or races speak it; how long you've been working at it; how
it works, etc. etc. Though, since you seem to be into auxlangs as
conlangs, the first question is moot.

Allright then, what kind of language are you banging together? Is it
recognisable or something entirely new? Is it based on some regional
group of languages? Etc.?

>What I'm saying is: I have no interest in the politics on AUXLANG. I'm a
>conlanger with particular interest in the design of IALs, with no concern
>for their actual use at all. I don't propagate. Therefore, I'm coming to
>this list. I want to kindly ask permission to post some of my design ideas
>here, even though they are about IALs. Their real nature is much
>rather "conlangish" or even "artlangish". Would that be okay?
Peachy!

Padraic.

>Regards,
>Oskar